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New MacBook, Leopard pre-installed - NO BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT! (solution)
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: UK
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Hey everyone,
My girlfriend purchased a new MacBook (white, 2.2GHz Santa Rosa, Intel GMA X3100) yesterday. For academic purposes she needs to be able to boot into Windows now and then, so Boot Camp played a major part in her decision to buy the MacBook.
So we got home, set everything up and to our confusion we could not find the Boot Camp Assistant in /Applications/Utilities . So I spent an hour looking online for a solution (one problem with buying a brand new product: it's newer than Google's caches!) and, aside from the suggestions to do a complete reinstall, I came upon the following helpful solution on the Apple Discussion forums:
- Insert the Mac OS X Install Disc 1 that came with your MacBook,
- In the Finder, choose "Go To Folder" from the "Go" menu,
- Type in: /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 1/System/Installation/Packages
- Double-click the BootCamp.pkg file,
- Follow the installation procedure (literally takes about 5 seconds to install).
Before proceeding with the installation, I decided to phone the Apple Store for reassurance (just in case anything else was missing from the pre-installed version of Leopard). They assured me that OS X is completely compartmentalised and that if anything else had slipped through the cracks then it could be installed in a similar fashion.
I hope this helps anyone else who's finding themselves in this kind of situation. 
A couple of quick questions to you guys: before we go installing a bunch of Applications, do you think it's safer to do a complete system restore - or would you go along with the tech support and assume that everything else is fine? Does anyone know how Apple's factory installation images work? I mean, could it be as simple as someone forgetting to check the "Boot Camp" checkbox - or is it more likely to be a fundamentally corrupt image?
Thanks!
Oh, and credit where it's due:
http://tinyurl.com/2d4zjh
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Wiesbaden - Germany
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Shouldn't be a problem. The boot camp assistant is just a small front-end to a command-line utility that is part of the System.
No reinstallation of the system is necessary.
The Windows drivers are on the Installer DVD.
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Thanks for the response! You've definitely put my mind at ease.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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i did that.. but the problem is when i reboot the machine , and hold on to the 'option' key , it only shows the Mac partition... and not the windows side... any solution??
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Did you install windows already?
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Originally Posted by htdefiant 
Did you install windows already?
Yeah.. installed.. so what I'm doing now is that , I'll set the machine to boot up to Windows all the time ... and to switch to Mac , press the 'option' key.. That's because if i were to set it to boot from Mac , I won't be able to get into windows.. (i hope i make sense here...ahaha)
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